The first PC virus was a boot sector virus created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan. The viruses name is Brain. They said they invented the virus to punish and track free booting of their medical software for the IBM PC. The "Hard Disk" of the PC was replaced with an infected one so that Showed a weird message. Such as:
“Welcome to The Virus (c) 1986 Basit & Amjad (pvt) Ltd. BRAIN COMPUTER SERVISES 730 NIZAB BLOCK ALLAMA IQBAL TOWN LAHORE-PAKISTAN PHONE :430791,443248,280530. Beware of this VIRUS.... check our website for help..............!@!@#$@@!@
It was real so that they could track replicated disks. This information was found on
They are able to see how many times the disk is replicated. There are different types of variations of the error message on the bootup such as:
Welcome to the Dungeon
(c) 1986 Brain & Amjads (pvt) Ltd.
VIRUS_SHOE RECORD v9.00
Dedicated to the dynamic memories
of millions of viruses that are not with us today -
Thank GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS :This program is catching
The first PC virus was a boot sector virus created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan. The viruses name is Brain. They said they invented the virus to punish and track
free booting of their medical software for the IBM PC. The "Hard Disk" of the PC was replaced with an infected one so that Showed a weird message. Such as:
“Welcome to The Virus (c) 1986 Basit & Amjad (pvt) Ltd. BRAIN COMPUTER SERVISES 730 NIZAB BLOCK ALLAMA IQBAL TOWN LAHORE-PAKISTAN PHONE :430791,443248,280530. Beware of this VIRUS.... check our website for help..............!@!@#$@@!@
It was real so that they could track replicated disks. This information was found on
They are able to see how many times the disk is replicated.
There are different types
of
variations of the error message on the bootup such as:
Welcome to the Dungeon
(c) 1986 Brain & Amjads (pvt) Ltd.
VIRUS_SHOE RECORD v9.00
Dedicated to the dynamic memories
of millions of viruses that are not with us today -
Thank GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS :This program is catching
program follows after these messages..... $#@%$@!
That is the other variation i could find.
This is the IBM PC
Websites I found info on
http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-birth-of-the-first-personal-computer-virus-brain/news-story/555b25e198059f56e1f0a4e4e902e8a8 Shows infohttps://www.dynadot.com/community/article/qa/brain-computer-virus More info
http://www.factfixx.com/2012/01/19/brain-the-first-computer-virus/ More info
https://campaigns.f-secure.com/brain/virus.html Even more info
https://priceonomics.com/who-invented-the-computer-virus/ More info
Multiple choice
When did The Farooq brothers Invent the Brain virus?
(A) 1987
(B) 1985
(C) 1986
(D) 1975
What happened to the hard disk when being infected with the brain virus?
(A) Blew Up
(B) Showed weird message
(C) made noises
(D) Blue screen